Lucy is potty training...

Last week I decided that this week might be a good week to start to Potty Train. We have talked about doing it for awhile and had her little panties (we usually say underwear but you should hear Lucy call them panties, so cute) picked out too.
This week Dailey doesn't have preschool so we thought it would be a good week.
Well On Monday she was so excited to wear the monkey underwear. We also took her to the dollar store last week and let her pick out toys and prizes to put in our treat bucket. She went three times in the toilet and had three little accidents by 11:00 that morning. I was trying to pump her full of juice and I let her run around in just her underwear and jamma shirt.
By the afternoon she had told me twice that she needed to go. I thought it was just a fluke but we are now on day two and she has told me a handful of times that she needed to go and than we get in there and she goes.
Actually this morning we took her out of her pullup she slept in and she said "Mom, I do it"  she wanted to do it all by herself. She also would giggle everytime I would wipe her and say mom that tickles when you wipe.
She only had one accident today. A couple other times she told me she needed to go and she got on and went a lot but I felt her underwear and it was slightly wet. So she must have felt it coming and than told me. But I am very impressed with how quick she is picking it up!
She was in time out for not listening and so I thought id take a picture because it was just so cute.
I haven't really done the nose in the corner with her but I did it a lot with Cole and actually I have a pic of all the kids in that spot so I am not sure if I was really disciplining her or just catching the photo op moment. :)

I wasn't sure how tricky it would be trying to train her with Tayson having a cold and being pretty clingy so I told Cole and Dailey if they would ask Lucy if she needed to go potty and helped with all the hoopla of being excited for her when she went, they could pick a treat too. So they have been extremely helpful, and been her biggest cheering section. I am sure they would have been great cheer leaders even if I hadn't asked them to help and bribed them. But I have liked hearing them help support her!
Keeping our fingers crossed that this continues. The real test will be when we venture out!

My TuesDay...

We had pancakes for Breakfast. Kevin made them!

We have all been helping Lucy, who is doing so well on her second day of potty training.  

We got Cole off to school. 

I folded and put away two loads of laundry.

Cleaned toilets and mirrors.

Answered the BCC phones. 

Made Lunch.

Took Lucy to the bathroom for the 100th time.

Wiped Tayson's runny nose for the billionth time.

Changed a few diapers.

Wiped up one potty accident. (Really only one on day 2 is impressive)

Walked to pick Cole up from school.

Went through and organized papers from school.

Got soccer game treats ready.

Read books to the kids.

Swept and Mopped the kitchen floor.

Rocked kids to sleep.

Sang Lots of primary songs till I heard soft sounds of snoring.

Colored and helped with Dailey's homework (she doesn't have preschool this week but she does have HM)

Kevin helped Cole with his homework. 

Blogged.

Stopped blogging to rock Lucy back to sleep. 

Kept blogging and than stopped to put Tayson's binki back in his mouth.

Today wasn't anything spectacular. I stayed home all day with my kids except to go get Cole from school. Kevin and Dailey went to Cole's soccer game. While I stayed home because Tayson had a pretty bad runny nose and we didn't want him out at the windy soccer field and also because running up to use the toilets at the soccer field every 15 didn't sound too fun either.

But even though it wasn't anything special. It is the life I am living right now and I rather like it. Ask me tomorrow and my answer could be different. But it was a GOOD Day!

Except that I really wished I could have seen Cole score two goals at his game!

Another thing I liked about today was that Kevin was home early working on some office work and so I got to go and walk to school to pick Cole up.  I love being there to get him. He ran right up to me and gave me a big hug. This is not normal. He does not usually hug me. I loved it!

We walked home together. It was so nice to hear about his day. It can be a bit of a walk for such a young kid but he did great. Later when no other kids were around he let me hold his hand as we walked. Than I gave him a piggy back. But that only lasted about three houses long or so. He is getting to be a big kid. 

An ordinary Tuesday but sometimes ordinary is just the way I like it!

p.s. 

I need to add a list off all the things Kevin does in a day. I am sure I would be typing forever. He does so much with Bush Carpet and than comes home and is so involved in all of our lives and helps out around the house too. He did our grocery shopping today, and ran Cole to school and ran to the bank. He also made breakfast and took Cole to his soccer game. 

He is always doing so much on top of his work stuff. 

The man is Amazing!

Weekend getaway to Pineview Lake in September..

We went camping and boating over the weekend with our friends. They are always so nice to invite us on their boat. Kevin and I both wake boarded and Cole was so brave and tried wake boarding and almost got up and than he tried skiing and he got up and skied around for awhile it was so fun to see him do that.
Than they pulled out the banana which we call a water weenie. To my surprise both Dailey and Lucy wanted to get on! Kev's knee was hurting from wake boarding so I rode it with all the kids!
They wanted to ride that all day. It was so nice and no one was even their.
We stayed saturday night too and NO One was on the lake. That was really hard for our friends to not go out on the lake on sunday.
Especially when the water was so nice. It was hard for us too but we already knew our stand on that!
It rained on us a little too which we were grateful for Mom and Dad Dearden's camper to hide away in and play games! Friday night we roasted hot dogs and saturday night we went to Huntville BBQ which is always so yummy!

As we were driving to Huntsville Kevin says to me "Oh man, this isn't good for us, we already know we want a boat and we already know we want to live here."
Well maybe one day....

Dailey First time on a soccer team...

We decided to sign Dailey up for soccer! We signed Cole up at this age so we thought we better sign Day up to and see how she likes it!
She was so excited for her game and to wear her new jersey and socks!!
When we got there both teams were black and no one new who's team they were on. It was really our first time meeting the team.
So someone suggested shirts and skins. Dailey is the only girl on her team so they asked if she had another shirt she could wear. It was the weirdest thing. Poor kids. Some didn't want to take their shirts off and so I think that is why the coach has his off.
Not gonna lie we have some interesting people on our team!
Dailey had a few good kicks and gave us lots of thumbs up. She twirled her braids alot too!

Tayson's 1st Haircut...

This little guy has been going around with quite the mop top and we finally gave him a haircut!

Little Miss Dailey Lynne starts Preschool...

Dailey was so excited to go to school. She wanted me to drop her off before I took Cole to school. She goes Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday's from 9:00 -11:00. She Loved her first day. She went right in and hung up her backpack. She said goodbye and that was that. I asked who she sat by and she said all my cousins.  I explained they were not her cousins just friends.
I asked if she met anyone and she told me she told a girl her name and asked what her name was and she didn't say anything. I told her that maybe she was just shy. She said tomorrow I will say it louder!
She is such a sweet girl and I loved how she told me all about her day as we ate cookies and milk together.
It was really weird running my errands with only two little ones in the car.
I missed this sweet girl and so did Lucy!

Our First 1st Grader...

                                                         Cole's first day of 1st Grade.
We sure are gonna miss this little guy around our house. I know we still have three at home but it is quieter. He is such a good kid. He was so excited about lunch at school, he memorized his 7 digit lunch number they gave him just yesterday! He also said he couldn't wait for recess.
I can't wait for 3:00 to roll around to see how it went! Tears were shed but we are so excited for him.